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Enablers have blood on their hands

Last week started with the President of the United States covering up the murder of ajournalist andU.S. resident by a Middle East money lender who is Crown Prince Jared Kushner’s BFF, progressedthrougha nationwide bomb scare that threatened the lives of two past Presidents, among other high-profileTrump critics,and ended with mass murder in a place of worship in Mr. Rogers upscale Pittsburgh neighborhood.

The worried world watches and waits, wondering if Trump’s heavily armed deplorables will easily surrender their moment in the spotlight or if the Dear Leaderand his plethora of bootlickers will inspire bloody insurrection from the mentally unhinged fringe element if the election doesn’t go their way. .

The self-proclaimed “greatest country in the world” is a boiling cauldron of hatred ready to bubble overinto post-election violence that couldengulf the countryand impact the entire globe.

Few objective observers expect anything less from this malignant narcissist? But what about the supporting castofsanctimonious sycophants, religious wingnuts and faux patriots who masqueradetheir cowardicein the folds of the flag.

Presumably unencumbered by mental illness,regularCNN Trump enablers like Rick Santorum, Steve Cortes, Alice Stewart and Scott Jennings, among many others, twist themselves into human pretzels denying the obvious unfitness of theirchoice for the highest office in the land. They cluck about entertainer Trump versus presidential Trump, separating the toxicity of his venom andevilclown antics emanating from the Oval Office as if he were a toddler going through the terrible twos.

They justify their advocacy by citing supposed successes, most notably the seating of two ultra conservative judges to the Supreme Court.The plain politically incorrect truth is that a monkey could put his finger on the list provided by the Federalist Society and get his picks through a Senate top-loaded with tree-swingers.

The much-vaunted tax reduction for the rich, the only significant legislation passed by a Congress and Executive Branch dominated by Republicans, is so unpopular GOP candidates aren’t talking about it in the run up to the midterms, instead preferring to vilify a caravan of poor people a thousand miles and weeks of walking away from America.

Family values stalwart and Republican operativeStewart, a crucifix prominent on her throat most nights, admitsto being dismayedby the pussy grabbing tape, porn star and Playboy bunny payoffs, philandering andsexual assault accusationsbut rationalizes voting for Trump because he appointed Supreme Court judges who might overturn a woman’s right to control her own body.

Failed Presidential candidate Santorum, ever focused on futureopportunities, smiles slyly to himself while mildly disavowingthe most egregious Trumpbehavior, careful not to alienate the deplorable base key to his political ambition.

Jennings, the ‘aw shucks’ moderate,assuages his conscience and puts on a good guy face for his kids bydisagreeing withthe most offensive Trump methodology while supporting the man endangering the democracy they will inherit.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Leader Paul Ryan and their respective gangs of mouth-breathers, climate change deniers,religious ravers and NRA lap dogs have chosen to be on the wrong side of history for political expediency, implications for the future of the country be damned.

Evangelical scions like Jerry Falwell Jr. and Franklin Graham, intent on their mission to preserve the power and riches bestowed upon them by their earthlyfathers, will presumably answer fortheir self-serving actions when they meet their Maker. Meanwhile, their followers will have some explaining to do at the Final Judgement for eschewing the biblical values they exalt in favour of an agenda carried out by a demented orange emissary of the dark underworld.

The Murdoch family and the right wing mercenaries at Fox News betray the viewers who support their privileged lifestyle by spewing venomous conspiracy theories and pumping out fake news 24/7 while Dear Leader demeans real journalists.

Oblivious to the havoc he reeks, Donald Trump stumps the country spewing poisonous rancor against all who oppose him, ingraining his invectives in the sick minds of violent fringe players like accused bomber CesarSayoc,seen chanting CNN sucks at Trump’s frightening mob rallies, and Robert Bowers, who adopted Trumpian tropes by calling immigrants “invaders” and lamenting that Jews are “infesting” America before carrying out his murderous rampage.

Historians may recognize the Dear Leader’s mentalillnessas a mitigating factor for the damage he has done. Not so for the ‘sane’people he relies upon for support.

AllTrump enablersare culpable in the carnage endangering their democracy.All of them have blood on their hands.